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AVV Job Ticket

RWTH has been offering its employees the AVV Job Ticket since 2011. AVV Job Tickets are discounted transit passes for employees at companies or institutions. The Job Ticket aims to make using public transportation more attractive and reduce the use of personal vehicles.

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The job ticket contract with ASEAG and AVV has been extended for the period July 1, 2019 to December 31, 2020. Below you can find information on the online application process and on current job ticket prices.

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Who can acquire an AVV Job Ticket?

Basically all public servants, employees, and apprentices of RWTH may acquire an AVV Job Ticket.

Except for the following individuals:

Student and enrolled scientific assistants

Employees who are simultaneously enrolled and are allowed to use a Semester Ticket

Disabled individuals with a valid pass who have a token for free rides on public transportation

Public servants on parental leave except those who are still working with less hours during the legal period before the parental leave starts

Employees on maternity leave

Public servants who are suspended or on sabbatical without pay

Chronically sick RWTH employees who are receiving benefits from the Job Center and those in partial retirement who are no longer employed at RWTH

Part-time employees in accordance with Section 8, Para 1, 1 of the Social Code IV – so-called "450-euro jobs" or those whose working hours amount to under half the monthly collectively agreed or standard company working time

Visiting researchers, private lecturers, unbudgeted professors, and contract lecturers, if they do not have any other employment status or relationship with RWTH that authorizes them to acquire a job ticket, for example wissenschaftliche Beamte or academic staff

Medical personnel, who work as part of the University Medical Center, specifically those who fall under Section 2 Paragraph 4 of the Cooperative Agreement between RWTH and Uniklinik RWTH Aachen from August 26, 2004

Areas of Validity

The Job Ticket is valid in the second class of all of the buses and trains in the Aachener Verkehrsverbund, AVV for short. Outside the city of Aachen, the AVV encompasses the Aachen city region, the districts of Düren and Heinsberg and many neighboring communities in the VRS area.

You can also go to neighboring counties with your Job Ticket on certain bus lines. An overview is available in the document AVV Areas of Validity.

Travel Times

You can use your ticket around the clock and during your free time. The ticket can be used as a family and group ticket during the week starting at 7pm and on the weekend and on federal holidays. On these days, an additional adult and up to three children under 15 years of age can travel with you free of charge. This does not apply to the AVV Job Ticket for apprentices.

Price

The price of the AVV Job Ticket at RWTH depends on your city of residence, that is the zip code registered with the Human Resources Department, and its respective tarif zone.

The prices for 2015 to 2019 are listed here, with the prices for 2020 in the appendix. The price for apprentices remains the same regardless of the place of residence.

Services connected to the ticket are the same for all employees, regardless of your place of residence.

Prices for the AVV Job Ticket for 2020

ASEAG will increase the prices for the AVV job ticket effective January 1, 2020.

The monthly prices for the job ticket are as follows for 2020:

Fare Zone

Fare Group A
Monthly Price

Fair Group B
Monthly Price

Supplemental Ticket Region 3
Monthly Price

Supplemental Ticket VRS
Monthly Price

Supplemental Ticket VRR
Monthly Price

1

27 euros

35 euros

37 euros

95,80 euros regardless of group

90,20 euros regardless of group

2

36 euros

47 euros

3

48 euros

62 euros

4

63 euros

82 euros

5

92 euros

120 euros

Apprenticeships

22 euros

22 euros

21,50 euros

Supplemental Tickets

The area of validity of the AVV Job Ticket can be expanded upon request:

As a monthly subscription for an additional 95,80 euros to include the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg, VRS for short

As a monthly subscription of an additional 90,20 euros for rides in a part of the VRR for employees who live in certain communities in the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr or VRR zone.

As a monthly subscription for an additional 37 Euros for adults and 21,50 euros for apprentices (region3tarif) for bus rides that cross border areas in the three-country point

The prices for the supplemental tickets are deterimed by the participating transportation assocations.

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